Pninit Russo-Netzer - Böcker

From its trendy urban centers to its ancient deserts, Israel's history is based on the rich heritage of traditions and contradictions. It is known as a start-up nation, with hospitable and warm interpersonal relationships, and a steady high-ranked happiness level. Yet, its deep political disparities and past traumas ripple beneath the surface of its culture, with unyielding existential threats looming from its neighbors and from within its borders. The turbulent Israeli setting—characterized by salient existential threats, issues of identity and dialectic world views—serve as a magnifying glass for unravelling a variety of significant ways through which the human fundamental motivation to find meaning in life is manifested.Finding Meaning incorporates a conceptual framework for examining the post-modern, sociocultural Israeli scene that facilitates and triggers the search for meaning among its citizens. Combining theory, data, and illustrative case studies, this book unravels a variety of significant and fundamental manifestations of a quest for meaning under existentialist duress, carefully navigating the cultural context of post-modernist Israel. Written by experts in these areas, this book offers new insights into this quest by suggesting a new construct that weaves together the personal and cultural environment, highlights several key processes and dimensions that appear to characterize this search, and offers broad perspectives that contribute to the research at these intersections.Finding Meaning is a pioneering book with an insightful, innovative, and hopeful lens for academic, scholarly, and some lay readers interested in meaning and contemporary Israeli society.

Logotherapy and Existential Analysis: 100 Key Points and Techniques is a practical, inspiring guide to Viktor Frankl’s meaning-centered approach.In 100 concise, engaging chapters, it offers a clear roadmap for anyone navigating uncertainty, burnout, loss, loneliness, or the disorienting pace of modern life—whether in their personal journey or professional practice. Drawing from Frankl's timeless framework and contemporary research and clinical developments in the field, the book moves from foundational principles to hands-on techniques and real-world applications across a remarkable range of settings: therapy and counseling, healthcare, education, organizations, community, and beyond. What makes this volume distinctive is its integration of theory, evidence, and ready-to-use practices in one coherent, highly readable format. At a time when uncertainty, disconnection, and rapid change have made the search for meaning more urgent than ever, this book is an invaluable companion—insightful, motivating, and deeply human—for anyone who wants to live and work with greater purpose, courage, and direction.Logotherapy and Existential Analysis: 100 Key Points and Techniques serves as an indispensable resource for psychotherapists, counsellors, and anyone seeking to integrate meaning-centred perspectives into their personal or professional lives.

Logotherapy and Existential Analysis: 100 Key Points and Techniques is a practical, inspiring guide to Viktor Frankl’s meaning-centered approach.In 100 concise, engaging chapters, it offers a clear roadmap for anyone navigating uncertainty, burnout, loss, loneliness, or the disorienting pace of modern life—whether in their personal journey or professional practice. Drawing from Frankl's timeless framework and contemporary research and clinical developments in the field, the book moves from foundational principles to hands-on techniques and real-world applications across a remarkable range of settings: therapy and counseling, healthcare, education, organizations, community, and beyond. What makes this volume distinctive is its integration of theory, evidence, and ready-to-use practices in one coherent, highly readable format. At a time when uncertainty, disconnection, and rapid change have made the search for meaning more urgent than ever, this book is an invaluable companion—insightful, motivating, and deeply human—for anyone who wants to live and work with greater purpose, courage, and direction.Logotherapy and Existential Analysis: 100 Key Points and Techniques serves as an indispensable resource for psychotherapists, counsellors, and anyone seeking to integrate meaning-centred perspectives into their personal or professional lives.

This volume therefore is destined to become an important addition to psychological literature: both from the viewpoint of the history of ideas (again this would be one of the first times that positive and existentialist psychologies meet) and from the viewpoint of theoretical and empirical research into the meaning concept in psychology.

This volume therefore is destined to become an important addition to psychological literature: both from the viewpoint of the history of ideas (again this would be one of the first times that positive and existentialist psychologies meet) and from the viewpoint of theoretical and empirical research into the meaning concept in psychology.

This book draws on existential theory and original research to present the conceptual framework for an understanding of existential authenticity and demonstrates how this approach might be adopted in practice. The authors explore how a non-mediated connection with authentic lived experience might be established and introduced into everyday living. Drs. Jonathan Davidov and Pninit Russo-Netzer begin by introducing readers to the core theoretical concepts before illustrating how this might be applied in a therapeutic practice. It appeals to scholars and practitioners with an interest in existential psychology, phenomenology, and their broad implications.

"Clinical Perspectives on Meaning: Positive and Existential Psychotherapy . . . is an outstanding collection of new contributions that build thoughtfully on the past, while at the same time, take the uniquely human capacity for meaning-making to important new places." - From the preface by Carol D. Ryff and Chiara RuiniThis unique theory-to-practice volume presents far-reaching advances in positive and existential therapy, with emphasis on meaning-making as central to coping and resilience, growth and positive change. Innovative meaning-based strategies are presented with clients facing medical and mental health challenges such as spinal cord injury, depression, and cancer. Diverse populations and settings are considered, including substance abuse, disasters, group therapy, and at-risk youth. Contributors demonstrate the versatility and effectiveness of meaning-making interventions by addressing novel findings in this rapidly growing and promising area. By providing broad international and interdisciplinary perspectives, it enhances empirical findings and offers valuable practical insights. Such a diverse and varied examination of meaning encourages the reader to integrate his or her thoughts from both existential and positive psychology perspectives, as well as from clinical and empirical approaches, and guides the theoretical convergence to a unique point of understanding and appreciation for the value of meaning and its pursuit. Included in the coverage: ·    The proper aim of therapy: Subjective well-being, objective goodness, or a meaningful life?·         Character strengths and mindfulness as core pathways to meaning in life·         The significance of meaning to conceptualizations of resilience and posttraumatic growth ·        Practices of meaning-making interventions: A comprehensive matrix·         Working with meaning in life in chronic or life-threatening disease·  Strategies for cultivating purpose among adolescents in clinical settings·         Integrative meaning therapy: From logotherapy to existential positive interventions·         Multiculturalism and meaning in existential and positive psychology    ·     Nostalgia as an existential intervention: Using the past to secure meaning in the present and the future·         The spiritual dimension of meaning Clinical Perspectives on Meaning redefines these core healing objectives for researchers, students, caregivers, and practitioners from the fields of existential psychology, logotherapy, and positive psychology, as well as for the interested public.